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The fourth edition of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival (BARQ) recently concluded with the announcement of E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea as the best feature film. The film, directed by Beatrice Minger and Christoph Schaub, won out among the seven...
On November 8, Sotheby's New York opened its new home in the Breuer Building, the 1966 brutalist masterpiece designed by Marcel Breuer for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The renovation of the modern landmark was carried out by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron with New York's PBDW...
The Doshi Retreat opened on October 25 at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It is a refuge designed by Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi in close collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof.
The Ismaili Center, Houston, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in partnerhsip with AKT II DLR Group, was inaugurated on November 6 as the first Ismaili Center in the United States and the seventh worldwide.
The Inaugural RIBA Middle East Awards has recognized nine winning projects across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, celebrating the region’s best new architecture. Jumana Abdel-Razzaq reports on the winners from Dubai.
On November 1, Dublin-based architecture firm heneghan peng architects celebrated the official completion of its design of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Located just over one mile away from the Pyramids of Giza, the museum is a testament to the longevity and scale of ancient Egyptian civilization...
Number of years it took to construct and open the entire complex of the Grand Egyptian Museum close to Giza, spanning 500,000 square meters (5.4m sf), costing some $1.2bn (€1.1bn), and...
A list of 410 works nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) has been released by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The nominations showcase the most significant built works in the EU...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Zhu Pei, the Chinese architect whose most famous building is the stunning five-year-old Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum.
Lahbib El Moumni and Imad Dahmani founded Mémoire des Architectes Modernes Marocains (MAMMA) in Casablanca in 2016. MAMMA is working on documenting modernist buildings that have often been forgotten and urgently need more publicity. Eduard Kögel spoke with Lahbib El Moumni...
Sitting on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, Neuhoff is a large mixed-use development consisting of office, cultural spaces, residential units, and retail/dining establishments in a mix of new construction and converted old buildings that hark back to...
Number of American architects and designers tasked with advising on designs for major projects, such as the White House ballroom and the monumental “Arc de Trump,”
Malcolm Reading Consultants has revealed the designs by the seven finalists in the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition. The new museum will be located on the east bank of the Jordan River, adjacent to Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan,”...
Anchoring Harvard University's new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts, the David Rubenstein Treehouse is a new university-wide hub for convening and the first mass timber building on the Ivy League school's growing campus.
A short film from OPEN Architecture captures the sun moving across the firm's Sun Tower, the cultural facility completed last year on an oceanfront site in the Yantai Yeda Development Zone, in China's Shandong Province.
Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research program focused on transitioning to net zero and a green economy, has unveiled the Stone Demonstrator, a 1:1 scale pre-tensioned stone structure installed on the Earls Court development site in West London. The three-story installation...
As the Gulf region experiences unprecedented growth—more than a trillion US dollars’ worth of projects are in the pipeline—Arabian-Architects.com is set to become a dedicated online platform for the region’s architects, designers, and related professionals. The new regional platform will be...
Appropriate to its name, the Center for Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness at T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) is "devoid of entry or even a main door, fostering openness and accessibility," in the words of its architects, The Purple Ink Studio. This addition to the TAPMI campus in...
Six years after it opened to a mix of fanfare and controversy, the Hunters Point branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought over the inaccessibility of portions of building for people with disabilities, after modifications to...
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain opens its new premises at 2 Place du Palais-Royal in central Paris, across the street from the Louvre, on October 25. The institution is housed inside a Haussmannian building from 1855 that has been renovated by Jean Nouvel with five mobile...
Although it won't be 100% complete and fully occupied for some months, JPMorganChase opened its new 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, October 21, six years after the demolition of its predecessor, the 52-story Union Carbide Building, began.
Outrage has accompanied images of the East Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, being demolished to make way for US President Donald J. Trump's large addition of a 900-seat, $250 million ballroom.
A standout of the recent Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) held in New York City was a first-of-its-kind trivia night that dove into the dramatic intersection between brutalism and film. World-Architects partook in the fun event hosted by architect and filmmaker Jord den Hollander.
Grace Farms, the cultural and humanitarian center in New Canaan, Connecticut, that opened its SANAA-designed River building in October 2015, marked its tenth anniversary with a day-long celebration of art, design, music, and conversation on Saturday, October 11. World-Architects was in...
At first glance, the most distinctive aspect of this office and production facility in Dubrovčan, a village northwest of Zagreb, is the way it is lifted up on mounds to allow passage beneath the building. Not arbitrary, the site had been used previously as a landfill, and its remediation led...
Price for an elevator ride to the 44th story of the Humble-Exxon Building in Houston—once the tallest building in Texas and considered elegant enough to be described as “Cary Grant as a skyscraper”—
Camouflage by Ai Weiwei is on display at FDR Four Freedoms Park on New York's Roosevelt Island from September 10 to November 10, 2025. Designed with the Brooklyn-based design firm Camber Studio, the installation explores the essence of Roosevelt’s four freedoms and aims to “spark a...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 29th RIBA Stirling Prize: Appleby Blue Almshouse, a social housing complex in London for people over 65, designed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2025, selecting the ten best architecture books published between June 2024 and July 2025.
Washington, DC's The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) named Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU) as recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. Watch a trio of videos made by TCLF in which Schjetnan speaks about the...
Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU), the interdisciplinary design firm he founded in 1977, are recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, the biennial $100,000 award organized by The Cultural Landscape...
Contributing writer Jumana Abdel-Razzaq visits the campus of the American University in Dubai to explore the work of Dr. Georges Kachaamy, a celebrated architect and academic who is redefining the boundaries of architecture, and how his research in emerging technologies and artificial...
Founded in 1986, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology (SMVIT) sits on 133 acres in North Bangalore, not far from Bengaluru International Airport. Completed this March, the latest addition to campus is the SMVIT Library, designed by Bangalore's Cadance Architects like a tree: “anchored...
Later this month the Dallas City Council will debate the fate of Dallas City Hall, the brutalist building designed by I. M. Pei that has accumulated close to $100 million in deferred maintenance costs since its completion in 1978.
Number of people who died, including the architect, in the collapse of a six-story building in Madrid that was erected in...